Expert: Grant Hudson - 4/15/2010

Question
I'm looking for a comic that a friend remembers from the late 50s or early 60s.  He doesn't know what comic.
Here's what he remembers:

An all powerful space alien comes to Earth and says that he will destroy the Earth unless some human can defeat him in a contest.  It can be any type of contest and he even let's the humans choose the contest.

But this guy is so powerful that it is obvious that he can pretty much beat all the best champions of any sport that the Earth has to offer.

But then some clever person comes up with a great challenge.  He tells the alien there is one on going contest that humans engage in every night and that is to see who can sleep the longest.  Most people can only go a ten hours or so. But, he tells the alien, that there are humans who take the sport very seriously and sleep in special chambers underground so as not be disturbed.  The alien is taken to a cemetery to see these places for himself.  He is told that some of the contestants have been asleep for thousands of years.  Then he is told that the record for human sleep is ten thousand years.

So the alien takes the challenge and vows to sleep for ten thousand plus years.  The humans make the alien a nice big "sleep chamber" and bury him six feet under to have a good snooze .  The earth people are happy because they have just postponed a great catastrophe and figure they will let the people ten thousand years in the future deal with the problem.  That is if the alien can survive without air for that long.

Answer
Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to trace such a story -which sounds cool- based on what you've told me, due to the huge number of science fiction and horror comics that were around in the 50s and 60s. Can you remember anything else about it? Any distinctive feature or names? Time period? I'm willing to keep looking but need a bit more to go on...

Grant